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Monthly Archives: August 2006

Yahoo used to be a Directory

BLIP Yahoo started as the largest human-edited directory on freaking earth and we should not forget that the ailing DMOZ used to be a popular reaction to an almost total monopoly Yahoo used to have in this market. Gradually with volume increase this became less and less viable as a business model and Yahoo abandoned [...]

Yahoo is based on Inktomi Slurp

BLIP Remember there was a Search engine called Inktomi and it even had its own spider named Slurp for whatever stupid reason? Remember when Yahoo in fight for its independence from Google results bought Inktomi and Inktomi Slurp suddenly became Yahoo Slurp? To remind you here is a snapshot of an Inktomi.com page taken from [...]

Image search plus EXIF could be another traffic booster

There is something in SEO that tends to be grossly overlooked most of the time, namely something that might be called image search optimisation. Not only it is so because image search as such had been rolled out full-scale less than to years ago. Admittedly at first seeing my sites ranking well on image search [...]